Temperature

Calling sequence

Temperature =

Properties

• type: \(\mathrm{real\;number}\)

• values: [0.0, ...)

• unit: \(\mathrm{K}\)

Functionality

This keyword specifies the lattice temperature. It affects:

• the effective band gap value through the Varshni shift;

• the Bose-Einstein distribution of the phonon reservoir modes, which is involved in electron-phonon scattering.

• the calculation of the Debye screening length.

Note that this keyword is accounted only if SweepType does not involve temperature sweep.

Example

Temperature = 300

Note

The charge carrier temperature (i.e. electronic temperature) is not specified in the input file, as: - Under equilibrium, it matches the lattice temperature. - Under non-equilibrium, the charge carrier distribution is an output of the simulation. This distribution is not necessarily thermal, but an effective electronic temperature can be calculated from the subband distributions once the NEGF solution has converged.